'If 6 was 9' is a short film and DVD installation about teenage girls and sexuality. It is based on research and real events, which have been used to write the dialogues and a fictional tale. The main protagonists are five girls aged 13-15. The episodes depict events in their daily lives and scenes from their hometown, Helsinki. The girls chat amongst themselves and speak directly to the camera, sharing their experiences and thoughts on sex. They play basketball, hang out with friends, remember a ViewMaster version of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and pass around porn-magazine clippings showing the best places in town to have sex outdoors. The film offers a glimpse into the lives of girls becoming women, into their sexual fantasies, memories, habits, hopes and dreams. It shows the ongoing metamorphosis from childhood to adulthood. The girls want to possess the world, to embrace it with their arms, legs, cheeks, tits and arses. Their hopes, memories and thoughts, and events in their lives form a non-chronological